The Taiping army couldn't bear it and broke through, but unexpectedly chose the wrong object and ran into the Wu army, which was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and was violently blocked by the Wu army, and suffered heavy casualties for a while, and the breakthrough failed.

Seeing that the breakthrough was unsuccessful, Li Xiucheng hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat.

However, Hong Xiuquan didn't want to go back to Tianjing City and wait for death, so he refused to withdraw the army, so Li Xiucheng continued to lead the army and broke through with all his might.

"No matter what the price is, you must give me a bloody way to kill!"

Hong Xiuquan severely reprimanded Li Xiucheng, he didn't care how many people the Taiping Army was going to die, he had to kill him a bloody way at this moment and let him escape.

Li Xiucheng has long passed the days when he was young and frantically admired Hong Xiuquan, and now he has always been dissatisfied with Hong Xiuquan, he didn't listen to the original persuasion of Hong Xiuquan to let the city go, and now that the breakthrough fails, he must insist on breaking through, which is clearly to bury the only remaining more than 10,000 Taiping troops together.

Li Xiucheng failed to persuade him, so he had to order a desperate charge.

However, the Wu army's defense line is tight, and it has played the tactics of loosening the outside and tightening the inside for more than half a year, just waiting for this moment to come, and now that the Taiping army has taken the bait, how can the Wu army easily let go of the fat in the mouth.

At the beginning, in the dark, the Wu army thought that there were seventy or eighty thousand Taiping troops participating in the breakthrough, so they fought more conservatively, and the officers and soldiers of each town strictly guarded their positions, but only defended.

However, soon the Wu army found under the searchlight that the Taiping army in the attack did not have so many troops, and more Taiping troops were actually following Hong Xiu's family, the female battalion, and the family members of the officials who broke through together.

Breaking through with so many burdens is a taboo for soldiers. It's a pity that this is Hong Xiuquan's order, even if it's weird, it's not weird.

The Wu army soon launched a counter-charge, and the fourth town was originally ordered to avoid the Taiping army and attack Tianjing. As a result, the speed of the Wu army's field march was so fast that when the Fourth Town spared the Taiping army's breakthrough force and arrived at the outer city of Tianjing, it was found that a large number of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officials were still out of the city with their families and dependents.

This Nima's is also called a breakout?

Even the officers and soldiers of Wu couldn't help but burst out, it's not that they haven't seen the situation of breaking through, but it's the first time they have seen this kind of breakthrough in front of them, and the battle is already in full swing in front, and the crowd of people who broke through here are still out of the city.

Of course. There is a reason for this, this breakthrough is a life of nine deaths, and Hong Xiuquan's harem concubines and women's battalions account for one or two hundred thousand people. And you must go out of the city first, then the important ministers and family members, then other civil and military officials and family members, and more common people follow suit. The gates are a little bigger. So many people have to go out of the city, the slightest carelessness will block the road, in the panic, you hug me and crowd, the result is that the city gate has been in a crowded state, so that when the Wu army arrived, they were still fighting for the city gate and noisy.

"God help me!"

Chen Yi, the commander of the fourth town of the Wu army, was suddenly overjoyed, and thought that it would take some effort to capture the city gate. Not anymore.

"All ready!"

"Artillery fire suppression!"

"Infantry ready to charge!"

The order was given, and the artillery regiment of the 4th town was quickly put into position. The Type 59 infantry gun was very light and quickly deployed. The city of Tianjing was densely populated and brightly lit, giving the Wu artillery a good artillery guidance.

Five minutes later, the sound of artillery rang out.

One cannon shell roared and landed under the southern city, exploding violently, lighting up the entire sky in an instant.

The sudden shelling suddenly made the panic at the city gate, and the Taiping army guarding the gate wanted to close the city gate, but unfortunately at this time the Wu army launched a charge, and the people outside were so frightened that they wanted to run to the city, but the people in the city were in a hurry to go out, and the city gate was suddenly blocked on both sides, so that the Taiping army could not close the city gate.

The cannonballs don't have long eyes, constantly harvesting the lives under the city gate, and blasting a bloody road.

Ten minutes later, Wu Jun had already rushed to kill.

"If you don't want to die, get out of the way, otherwise you won't be killed!"

The officers and soldiers of Wu were not murderers, they had strict military discipline and would not massacre the common people for no reason, but the common people blocked the city gate and had to use extraordinary means.

After cleaning up a batch, the panicked people finally understood and hurriedly dodged so as not to be killed.

The passage was opened, and the Wu army quickly rushed into the city, attacking the Taiping army on the city from the inside and outside, and soon occupied the city gate.

"Inform the headquarters that our army has captured the city gate and request reinforcements!"

Chen Yi gave the order very calmly, and then ordered the officers and soldiers of the fourth town to begin to steadily advance around the city gate, sweeping away the Taiping troops who came to try to recapture the city gate.

The street fighting in the outer city immediately began, and at night, the Taiping army thought that it could be as easy as dealing with the Hunan army and the Huai army, but unfortunately they were wrong, the Wu army was no longer using a musket, and the advantage of the patriotic rifle at night was still very large, and the Taiping army tried in vain to conduct a white-knuckle battle at close range, but soon found that it was impossible to get close at all, because the rifle fire of the Wu army was too fierce.

In the headquarters of the Wu army, Su Sanniang was also surprised and delighted to learn that the fourth town had broken the city so quickly.

Chen Liang soon received another piece of news that there were actually only 10,000 or 20,000 Taiping Army breakout troops, and most of them were non-combatants of the Taiping Army.

"Princess, we can fight back!"

Hai Mingze also agreed: "Yes, otherwise, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang should react and attack Tianjing in a while." ”

Su Sanniang thought about it, and suddenly nodded: "Since this is the case, the whole army can be ordered to launch a counter-charge, but Hong Xiuquan must not run away!" ”

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze glanced at each other, nodded and said, "Don't worry, princess, we will never let Hong Xiuquan run away!" ”

The order was immediately issued, and the Wu officers and soldiers who were defending in the position quickly launched a counter-charge, and everyone received an order to seize Hong Xiuquan and promote them to three ranks, catch the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's high-ranking officials and generals to be promoted to two levels, and catch other prisoners to double their meritorious deeds.

The Wu army consisted of 70,000 or 80,000 people, and once a full-scale countercharge was launched, Li Xiucheng's remaining 10,000 Taiping troops could not be stopped at all, and a charge was crushed and scattered in all directions.

Hong Xiuquan, who was following behind the Taiping Army, was dumbfounded, although there were tens of thousands of female battalions around him to protect him, he was frightened after all. couldn't take care of his concubines and beauties, so he suddenly turned around and ran away, wanting to escape back to Tianjing.

It's just a scuffle everywhere. Bullets flew wildly, and the shouting of killing made Hong Xiuquan's mind dazed, and finally panicked, and directly hit Wu Jun's muzzle, and he was killed.

"The King of Heaven is dead!"

I don't know who screamed, and the Taiping Army, who was still thinking about protecting Hong Xiuquan, suddenly had a nervous breakdown, and Hong Xiuquan died. They completely lost their spiritual support and were quickly wiped out or captured by the Wu army one by one.

Li Xiucheng saw that the general trend had gone, and fled with the guards around him. However, he couldn't tell the direction in the dark night, and was finally captured by Wu Jun.

In this way, the final breakthrough of the Taiping army became a talisman, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was completely buried.

"The man is standing on the left. Woman and child stand on the right! ”

The Wu army sent batches of prisoners into the barracks. Take care of the spot and wait for dawn before screening.

Su Sanniang, Chen Liang, Hai Mingze and other generals of the Wu Army couldn't help but come out, looking at the batches of prisoners who were escorted back, and their faces bloomed with joy.

Especially the cartload of things, which was full of gold, silver, jewelry, and valuable things.

You must know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom practiced a system of public ownership of property, and all the property of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was handed over to Tianjing for unified safekeeping, and ordinary people could not get it. In the end, they were all divided by Hong Xiuquan and other high-level executives, and this time they broke through. They were all packed into the trunk of the car, and they were all captured by the Wu army.

The huge amount of treasure dazzled Wu Jun from top to bottom, but Su Sanniang was an exception, she followed Li Weiguo to Beijing, lived in the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City for a long time, and was already used to seeing their own treasures, so she quickly regained her senses.

"Can you catch Hong Xiuquan?"

Su Sanniang was most concerned about whether Hong Xiuquan was caught, and soon some officers and soldiers reported that Hong Xiuquan had been shot indiscriminately and his body was brought back.

After a while, Hong Xiuquan's body was carried back, and Su Sanniang stepped forward to check it out, and made sure that it was Hong Xiuquan, so she couldn't help sighing.

"A generation of heroes, I can't imagine that I will end up like this!"

Su Sanniang was full of emotion, when she joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, she was full of hope for the future, and once thought that Hong Xiuquan could overthrow the Qing Empire. Now it seems that Hong Xiuquan finally failed.

Chen Liang snorted coldly: "It's cheaper for him!" Wang Shang once said that Hong Xiuquan was just a liar, and he instigated the suffering people to rebel, but in fact he was just satisfying his personal **. Facts have proved that what the king said is right, since the day Hong Xiuquan captured Jinling, he has exposed his true nature, he is mediocre, and he only knows lewd pleasure all day long, but it has caused hundreds of millions of innocent people to die because of this. ”

Hai Mingze also nodded and said: "Yes, look at the Hunan army and the Huai army, every time they capture a city or a place, they will slaughter the city, how many ordinary people have died innocently, even if there are no hundreds of millions, seventy or eighty million will not be able to escape." Looking at the government and the opposition, only our king is the true master. ”

Everyone nodded one after another, for Li Weiguo, they are absolutely admired and respected, because no one has ever been able to achieve the level of Li Weiguo, not to mention anything else, just one of the three disciplines and eight points of attention, the Wu army was completely reborn, and completely distinguished from the Hunan army, the Huai army, the Taiping army, the Qing army, and even the armies of the great powers, which is enough to prove that Li Weiguo is a benevolent and righteous king.

Su Sanniang was happy in her heart, her husband had such a high evaluation in the army, and he was respected and loved by the officers and soldiers, which made her full of happiness and knew that she had married the right person.

"Okay, let's talk about these things in the future, now quickly reinforce Chen Yi and immediately seize the entire Tianjing."

As soon as everyone heard the princess's order, they immediately understood that Tianjing City was their real goal, and they had to control it before the Hunan army and the Huai army.

As a result, the seventeenth and eighteenth towns of the Wu army stayed behind to guard the prisoners, and the other towns quickly moved to support the fourth town and participate in the attack on Tianjing.

On the other side, Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan both received the news and sent people to inquire.

According to Su Sanniang's instructions, Chen Liang answered very vaguely, saying that the Taiping army wanted to break through, but it had been beaten back.

As for the specific situation, Chen Liang refused to disclose it, and also refused Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang to send reinforcements, insisting that Wu Jun could handle it himself.

All this is just stalling for time.

However, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang obviously did not believe it, and each of them gathered their staff to discuss countermeasures, and soon the personnel they sent found more shocking news.

"What? Wu Jun broke the city? ”

Whether it was Li Hongzhang or Zeng Guofan, when they got the news respectively, they jumped up in shock and suddenly felt deceived.

Break the city and you can be crowned king!

For this, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have spent a lot of effort in the past year. Now that he is about to succeed, he asked Li Weiguo to pick peaches, who can swallow this breath.

"Siege now! Do whatever it takes! ”

Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang both issued the same order, and now although Li Weiguo's Wu army has broken through the outer city of Tianjing, there are still inner cities and imperial cities, only if they break through the imperial city and take Hong Xiuquan, then it can be counted.

For the sake of this throne, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have given up, they have already paid so much, and they don't care about the last blow.

As a result, both the Hunan army and the Huai army moved and quickly launched a siege. Even the Chang Jie army and the Chang Sheng army entered the battle and launched a fierce offensive against the north and west gates of Tianjing.

Li Xiu became the last elite in Tianjing City, although there are still 100,000 Taiping troops left in Tianjing City, but unfortunately most of them are disabled or wounded, insufficient weapons, and ammunition is even more insufficient, after the breakthrough operation began, they all knew that they were abandoned, so morale was low, when they learned that the Wu army took the lead in breaking the city, these Taiping troops actually had no heart to resist, and then the Hunan army and the Huai army attacked the city at the same time, instantly crushing their last will, and they collapsed at the touch of a button.

In less than an hour after the Hunan and Huai armies launched their attacks, they broke through the north and west gates of the outer city of Tianjing.

However, there are still faster than them, the Wu army's movements can be described as fast, when the Hunan army and the Huai army broke through the outer city, the Wu army had already taken the lead in breaking through the inner city. The outer city was too large for the Wu army to quickly seize the other gates of the outer city, resulting in the Hunan army and the Huai army occupying several gates each. But there were fewer gates in the inner city and the imperial city, and even the original defenders broke through with Hong Xiuquan, so that the Wu army quickly occupied the inner city, the imperial city and the palace city.

When the Hunan army and the Huai army attacked the inner city, they found that the inner city was already full of Wu army's military flags, and they wanted to enter the inner city, sorry, there was no door.

"Stop!"

"Shoot in the future!"

At the head of the city, the soldiers of the Wu army were in full array, aiming their guns at the Qing army below, as long as the other party dared to take a step forward, they would shoot immediately, and they would never be used to it.

The shadow of a person's famous tree, what kind of master has what kind of soldier, Li Weiguo has always been strong, and the soldiers of the Wu army under him are naturally strong.

Whether it was the Hunan army or the Huai army, they were very jealous of the Wu army, so they didn't dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi, and reported the situation to Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang one after another.

"Rubbish! If they don't let you in, you really won't go in? ”

Zeng Guofan roared, feeling very embarrassed.

"My lord forgive the sins, and I will give an order, how can our Hunan army be afraid of them!"

"Bastard! If you don't do it just now, but now you do it again, isn't it clear that people are getting the permission of the old man? You pig brain! ”

Zeng Guofan hurriedly called out to his men, and reason told him that he could not break out into conflict with Wu Jun now, but he was angry, so he scolded his subordinates fiercely.

The generals of the Hunan army were full of helplessness, and they felt very unhappy lying down.

Similarly, Li Hongzhang also sighed, the outer city is full of ordinary people, and the perennial war and the ruins of the outer city are useless. On the other hand, the inner city and the imperial city are the core, and the official offices and treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are all there, and the oil and water are the largest, and now they are occupied by the Wu army.

"Let's go, let's go meet Princess Wu!"

Li Hongzhang's brain is faster than Zeng Guofan's, and when force is not enough, he has to think of a communication, go to Princess Wu to theorize, and see if he can get a piece of the pie back, even if it is soup, it is excellent. (To be continued.) )